[X2go-dev] OT: X2Go desktop distribution choices

John A. Sullivan III jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com
Tue Jan 5 18:35:36 CET 2010


On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:30 +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote: 
> John A. Sullivan III schreef:
> > Hello, all.  We have been struggling over whether we wanted to offer
> > Ubuntu or Fedora desktops to our users via X2Go.  However, as we
> > struggle in that debate, we are unexpectedly beginning to entertain the
> > idea of using Debian instead.
> 
> I think that's a good idea. There is much more experience with Debian
> then with Fedora. And about Ubuntu I would say to try this:
> 
> aptitude search '?and(~s universe,~i)'
> 
> ... and you will see you are using many packages without security
> support. I think that's maybe sometimes OK, but not for a thinclient server.
> 
> > May I ask what your experiences have been? 
> 
> I have some years experiences with Debian thinclients in small
> organisations, and I can tell you it works fine. I have used FreeNX
> (with ThinStation) and now a little bit X2go.
> 
> Biggest problem was always flash, the quality of flash in a bigger
> format is not good enough in my opinion and it can slow-down a user session.
> 
> Another point is to connect devices to clients. That's not always easy.
> 
> > What are your preferred desktop clients and why? If Debian, is it 
> > stable + backports or testing?
> 
> I have experiences with Debian stable and oldstable. I have heard X2go
> works fine with testing. I use sometimes backports, e.g. for OpenOffice.
> 
> Always running testing is not a good idea in my opinion, it changes to
> much. But you can do it for a short time.
> 
> > We are looking at supporting potentially many thousands of these
> > desktops. Thanks - John
> 
> With regards,
> Paul van der Vlis.
> 
> 
> 
> 
Thanks, Paul.  Do you or others have experience mixing stable +
backports with testing using pinning? I've heard some say that is the
best of all worlds and others say it is a terrible idea because testing
pulls in new libraries which can badly break packages in stable. Thanks
- John




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